In Other Brooklyn News

The city's paramedics say a rise in the number of seriously ill COVID-19 patients they are treating is bringing back disturbing memories of the height of the pandemic in New York last spring.

A few weeks into remote learning in June, Alexis Clark decided she was going to send her second-graders a gift.

On the same night that NYPD officers stood by while protesters attacked civilians and a journalist during a Borough Park protest against COVID-19 restrictions, the police department arrested four Black Lives Matter activists in Bedford-Stuyvesant for

Hasidic Jews in Brooklyn went ahead with some indoor and outdoor holiday celebrations in their synagogues Saturday evening, in defiance of restrictions limiting all religious gatherings to 10 or fewer people, in neighborhoods where the rates of coron

More than six months since the pandemic began, the MTA has begun setting up mobile trailers outside some train terminals for workers to use during breaks, in an attempt to provide more social distancing for employees.

As a child in Barbados, Joy Thomas took an early interest in food. "I was cooking mud as a little baby, making pies," she said. Once grown and living in the United States, her passion persisted.

Democratic nominee for New York's 25th State Senate on the power of perseverance, peaceful protests, and forthcoming bills on the agenda. "I'm the first queer person of color to ever serve in the New York State Senate.

Residents in Brooklyn held a rally in front of the 88th police precinct Sunday after they said they had encounters with uniformed officers wearing NYPD gear who identified themselves as immigration agents.

Two towers are quickly rising next to each other within spitting distance of the Barclays Center in Prospect Heights.

Brooklyn's immigrant communities are on high alert after a group of plainclothes law enforcement officers, who local watchdogs believe are tied to the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, attempted to raid two apartments in Fort Greene and